Tastes Like Procrastination

They took away the naked people so now it's just wine-soaked rambling, and mood swings. I'm an adult, so this is an adult space, and not for children.

[tanukiham]

Okay, news for people who don't know.

[edit: please read this in a hyper ADHD voice, not an angry voice]

I have cancer, I'm in chemo, I'm sick of not complaining about it on tumblr, and I shall become tedious so GO AHEAD AND BLOCK THE FOLLOWING TAGS GUILT FREE:

#cancer #cancer cw

#chemo #chemo cw

#medical #medical cw

Please for the love of green apples

Do not send me hopes, prayers, or unsolicited advice. That includes

"Hope you're doing okay."

"Hope you feel better."

"Hope chemo isn't kicking your ass today."

Cancer and chemo delight in destroying your hopes for me. I do not delight in it.

If you absolutely must send me hopes, prayers, or unsolicited advice, you owe me $20 and an apology.

DO NOT TELL ME THINGS ARE GOING TO BE OKAY OR THAT I GOT THIS. I do not got this. My care team has got this. All I got are side effects and all these episodes of the X-files to watch.

So what can you do?

"That's rough, buddy." I invite you to sit in the horror with me and agree that this sucks. Because it does. And if you have first hand experience of cancer or other chronic illness(es), feel free to commiserate.

If you don't know what to say, emojis are enough. 💣☔🖤💀🦀etc

Also, regular responses are still great. Honestly, it's business as usual around here most of the time, just don't get weird on my cancer posts, please, things are ugh enough.

[rawranansi]

A life that eats and eats and eats and crunches your bones but leaves your heart

[denizenhardwick]

sometimes i see some cool art of Blorbo but before i reblog it i peek in the notes and discover. it is not, in fact, art of Blorbo. it is art of Squub. i have no idea who Squub is.

[longingforrotkehlchen]

No matter how I looked at it, he didn't like me.

Star (starling) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

[ruinedchildhood]

[trupie]

Oh my God.

The board of directors’ names?

They’re the names from Fighting Baseball

I don’t know if that was on purpose or an Easter Egg or what but either way it’s magnificent

[bogleech]

#i mean how could that not be on purpose

I think thats going by the older definition of easter eggs, where it wasn’t something really planned ahead by the creators but something left in by the post production, debuggers, cleanup crew etc :)

[lemontongues]

one thing about me as a batman fan is that im not 100% convinced his penis works very good. im completely fine with fanfic where hes horny as hell and fucks like a machine and all that but in my heart of hearts im like. this man has erectile dysfunction.

like first of all theres the psychological aspect, in the sense that that man is stressed the hell out and traumatized and paranoid and juggling like 600% more in his head than the average person, which im told doesnt usually contribute to great boners. so there's that part. getting the man to put down his schedules and business concerns and the three different cases hes working on in the back of his head and the updates he wants to make to the batmobile and all that shit. that guy is Distracted during sex. he loses his boner at least once a session because he starts thinking about killer croc or something and yeah hes freaky but not really in that direction, sorry. this is a thing that happens to him and is a known phenomenon to his partners.

and then second of all physiologically im not convinced that he hasnt mangled his penis to some degree in the course of all the training and crimefighting and whatnot. like even taking extra pains to protect it as im sure he would, all of the times that man has been exploded and thrown through walls and glass and all of the jumping off of buildings and swinging around he does?? i simply dont believe his penis has emerged entirely unscathed. you absolutely cant tell me that in the early days he didnt at least twice take a running leap off of something, misjudge his landing, and absolutely destroy his balls when he slipped and took a wrought iron fence full force between the legs. this must have happened. i know it to be true that this man has scars on his dick that he didn't ask someone to put there on purpose and i do kinda think it could eventually affect his sexual function, even aside from the impact of all of his other various and perpetual injuries causing him pain.

so what im saying is that my headcanon is that batman's dick game is weak as hell at least 50% of the time. what that dick do? today, absolutely nothing. tomorrow, who knows. which tbh i find kinda hot in a roundabout way actually, so. love that for him. sorry about your penis, batman.

[copperbadge]

As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

[tomboyjessie13]

So basically look out for untagged and uncredited AI?

[copperbadge]

Kind of the opposite to be honest -- I suggest that we stop looking for AI and start looking for where our content comes from.

Being able to identify AI purely by sight -- "count the fingers, look at shadows, find irregularity in patterns" -- is only going to get more difficult. Currently, just "seeing" that something is AI sometimes results in artists being harassed when they post work which is mistaken for AI-generated.

So the idea is that if you want to avoid platforming AI imagery, don't look for uncredited AI; look for a source and if you don't see one, try and find one. If you can't find a source, simply consider not reblogging it. That both encourages people to source their posts and reduces the likelihood of spreading AI generated content.

For example, this image crossed my dash the other day. I can't find a source for it -- reverse image search just turns up Pinterest and other uncredited posts on other social media. No "this is my kitchen", no "this is a floor I installed."

It looks pretty realistic, but look at the asymmetric star shapes and the occasional non-square black stone on the sides. The lines on the smaller bat's wings are weird and so are some of the cabinet handles. The smaller bat is slightly asymmetrical, which could just be the installation; the weird arrow shape below the smaller bat is also asymmetrical. It's ambiguous -- but if it IS real and I can't link to the person who did the tilework or at least owns the home, I really shouldn't share it regardless. Which means I don't have to know if it's AI because either way I'm not reblogging it.

The idea isn't to identify AI imagery but to develop habits that mean you don't have to. This has the knock-on effect of encouraging people to provide source attribution, not to mention discouraging people from reposting legitimate artistic content without linking to the artist. It at least helps to lessen multiple issues that are very tough to provide permanent solutions for.

[integer-disarray]

Okay so this is NOT the point of the post (the point of the post is that AI images will be unidentifiable and you should treat it like they are already anyway) but dear god I keep noticing things in this image

The cabinets are melting like a clock in a Salvador Dali painting

The countertops don't match

To top it all off I actually found the original source of the image. And it's an AI art blog [!!] on Facebook. The caption is literally the prompt they used lol

So anyway yeah be vigilant about crediting the source of your shit guys

[copperbadge]

It might not be the point, and thank you for saying that, but it's more adjacent to it than you think, because you DID find the source (when I genuinely wasn't able to, and research online is my literal job). It was super satisfying when you did, right? Like it's very satisfying to me to have closure, and I'm sure it is for others too, even if they pretty much knew (as I did) that it was definitely AI already. Be proud of yourself, this is great!

Having a source is nice. It's like a little hit of the same feeling you get reading a reddit "am I the asshole" follow up where you find out the asshole got their comeuppance.

More generally, some folks have commented to say that some AI art posters add fake artist attributions, and yeah that's an issue, but having a garbage attribution is still helpful and can even be fun. If you see a piece of art you like with a name attached, don't you want to learn more about the artist, maybe see their other work? If it's a real artist then you get to explore their work and if it's AI generated then you get to feel smug that you debunked them. It's good to be curious!

The other day I saw a photograph of a donut that was so wildly lush I thought "surely that must be AI, no real donut has frosting like that". But it had an attribution! It linked to an Instagram post. So I clicked it, fully expecting to find myself on the account of an AI art aggregator. It was an aggregator, but not for AI -- for delicious food pictures from around the world. And all the pictures had links to the restaurants that served the food. So it wasn't AI, it was a really good Boston bakery.

AND THEN I got to dig around on this instagram account for the coolest food pictures from Chicago restaurants and find some new places in my city to try. (Or be horrified by. Jumbo shrimp cocktail deep dish pizza oh dear me no.)

It was a total win from start to finish, even though I was wrong. I got to use the internet to learn and interact with culture, the way it is best used, instead of arguing with people or doom scrolling or passive consumption of Content. All because the Tumblr user reposting the photo kindly gave an attribution.

[bidet-of-evil]

an incomplete mdzs/the untamed character guide

[tanukiham]

gay folk song Jim Moray excellence

[internetgreatesthits]

[semusepsu]

One of my favorite things about Put Baby In Pelican Mouth is that not only does the pelican have the intelligence necessary to speak human language but also knows how to lie, suggesting it has a theory of mind, yet not enough to understand that no one is going to put baby in pelican mouth.

[gallusrostromegalus]

To be entirely fair to the pelican, I have seen humans do much, much dumber things with their infants. The park rangers in Louisiana ha e to regularly tell people to not put their babies on the ground next to the gators for a pic.

In fact, it could be argued that the peculiar grammar used by the pelican in the Put Baby In Pelican Mouth post is deliberate, like how phishers use major grammar errors in their messages so that people too smart for the scam (or smart enough to report them) ignore the emails and the scammer can focus on the most likely marks.

Regardless, the pelican is right: there is absolutely someone dumb enough to put a baby in its mouth because it asked politely. Probably dozens on that beach alone.

[kyraneko]

Put baby in pelican mouth for Instagram photo. Facebook photo of baby in pelican mouth for many likes and also happy asleep baby. So cute baby in pelican mouth for video on TikTok. Youtube short of baby so cute in soft pelican mouth for so many views to Youtube channel. Baby in pelican mouth challenge.

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[beaft]

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

[starbitten13]

[tanukiham]

Once, after a lunch with people I mostly did not know, a couple came over to tell me that they had genuinely enjoyed meeting me, and that I was very funny. This was when I discovered you can give someone a personal review. It really helped my post-social anxiety.

[rubyvroom]

I do not like the Murderbot trailer. Murderbot is not a white dude. Murderbot is not a sulky emo white dude. It is an autistic nonbinary person. wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

[tanukiham]

The curse of reading the book first: everything about this feels wrong.

There's a chance that the trailer is a bad representation of the show, but given how media marketing works these days (careful to display the product you are actually going to get so you don't feel misled and leave an unsatisfied review) I don't hold out much hope.

[parkchanwoohoo]

I laughed at this so hard I stopped getting air in my body and had to sit down. This isn't a vibrator it's a failed homunculus and it's in terrible pain

[brucebocchi]

[sergle]

did you know that. their entire catalogue is like this? did you know ALL of the listings are animated?

[cardboardlife]

I have completed another crochet monstrosity

[ineffably-bisexual]

Literally every neurodivergent person when somebody mentions their interest.

[yatzuaka]

and here is his special little riding outfit:

[roach-works]

HORSES

[depsidase]